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Picture a group of adults given a task to perform. Research has shown that, if one adult performs worse than his or her peers on that task, it will result in a loss of self-esteem. Furthermore, that person is likely to perform more poorly on that same task in the future. ___ ___ Now put a group of four- to five-years old kids in the same situation. There is no affect on the child who didn t perform as well as his or her peers. So what do kids know that we adults have forgotten? They think they can learn new tricks, they can adapt. We adults think that an old dog can t be taught new tricks! Kids also think they can try harder next time and make up the difference. Isn t that a healthy attitude? So why don t we think that as adults? Have we been beat down too many times? Are we too hard on ourselves? Do we want to think that things should come easily for us? Life will throw you curve bills. On the path to bigg success, there will be times when you try and you don t succeed. It s important to learn from your mistakes, but we often learn the wrong lesson. Learn. Adapt. Then double your efforts. Don t compete with the opposite sex A more recent study at the University of Michigan showed that kids can be affected by competition. Little girls respond negatively if a little boy does better on a task. Little boys respond likewise there s a damaging impact if a little girl does better. So what can we conclude? Should we learn that women shouldn t try to compete with men? Or that men shouldn t try to compete with women? See them as a role model, not competition There will almost certainly always be somebody better. If not, maybe a good dose of humility is in order! But rather than comparing yourself to that person and getting discouraged, look at that person as a role model. You are where you are. They are where you want to be. See what you can learn from them so you get to where they are. Chances are they got started earlier. Chances are they ve put more time in. Chances are they ve gotten a few lucky breaks the kind of luck that comes to people who put themselves out there and take calculated risks. So don t see them as competition; look at them as a role model. Don t compete with others at all But there s a higher order a higher level of consciousness regarding comparisons. Here it is: Don t compete with anyone else man, woman or beast! Compete with yourself. Find that thing you at which you excel. Then strive to improve a little bit every day day after day, the new you competing against the old you . Focus on making yourself the best competitor you could ever encounter! Have you ever noticed that a great competitor brings out the best in his or her opponents? Become your own best competitor and you ll be a bigg success! ___ Get the tips and tools you need to be a BIGG success. Subscribe to the Bigg Success Weekly it s FREE! ___ Thank you so much for the gift of your time today. Please join us next time when we ll discuss the best investment you can make right now. Until then, here s to your bigg success. Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00524-112009.mp3 Related posts Entrepreneuring Life on Your Own Terms (Image in today s post by personalfx)

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a great article for The New Yorker a while ago. He talks about how David beats Goliath. It s a great read full of stories about underdogs. The main story is about a girl s basketball team that made the national championships when they shouldn t have won a game. The other stories from David to Lawrence of Arabia all support why these girls were able to achieve what they did. ___ ___ He cites a study that showed that small armies beat superior opponents a little over one-fourth of the time (28.5%). However, when these underdogs ignored the conventions of war and fought on their own terms, they won nearly two-thirds of the time (63.6%)! So you re two times more likely to win if you set the rules of the game! Set your terms to get your terms Bigg success is life on your own terms. So it turns out that it s a circle. You set the terms (your strategy) so you get the terms you desire (your mission). You are the entrepreneur of your life. You re in charge. Set the terms for the battles you engage in so you re more likely to win those battles. Small businesses, the Davids of the business world, can trump the Goliaths. Not by trying to compete head on. Not by following the conventions. By crafting strategies that may fly in the face of wisdom and engaging the Goliaths in unfamiliar ways, Davids can be victorious. The price for bigg success If you plan to go head-to-head with the Goliaths, there s a price you must be willing to pay. It takes effort. You have to be willing to work longer. You have to work harder. As Gladwell says, effort trumps ability. He cites the girls basketball team. Their secret? A full court press. Not just when the game was in its final minutes like a lot of teams do. These girls used a full court press for the entire game. It rattled their opponents who hadn t practiced for a full court press. Their standard plays started at half court. By engaging their opponents on the whole court, these girls put them on unfamiliar turf. There are many ways today for small businesses even solopreneurs to trump large competitors. In many cases, they don t involve money. They involve time. But that s okay because you know that effort trumps ability if you focus that effort on unconventional tactics. That s how to make your small business a bigg success! ___ Would you like more tips and tools to live your life on your own terms? Subscribe to the Bigg Success Weekly it s FREE! ___ Thank you so much for checking in with us today. Next time, we ll chat about why women shouldn t compete with men. Or is it the other way around? Please join us next time to find out. Until then, here s to your bigg success! Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00523-111809.mp3 Related posts The Coming Age of Small Business Part 1

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It s one of the most famous opening lines of any novel. Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities, wrote, It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Could the same be true for small business owners today? ___ ___ Many small businesses are struggling. According to Discover s Small Business Watch, half of the small business owners surveyed reported cash flow problems over the last three months. The good news is the number is down slightly, but it s still significant. It s been tough to get credit. Vendors are more demanding than ever while, at the same time, customers are paying slowly especially if you do business with certain state governments. But it s also a great time to be a small business owner. In a post awhile back on the Harvard Business blog, Peter Bergman said small companies will win. He talked about a small business that had won large accounts and got prepaid even though they were competing against much bigger, more established companies. He says clients aren t looking for big names flashy offices lots of time in the industry highly-capitalized vendors. So what do they want? Bergman says: Small is the new big. Sustainable is the new growth. Trust is the new competitive advantage. He reports that even senior level managers at many large companies have lost faith in their companies. As go the employees, so goes the company. People want to do business with people they trust. Not companies. Not organizations. Not institutions. People. People want to do business with people. People want to trust again. People want to do business with people they trust. Increasingly, that s small businesses. Trust is one of the reasons small companies have an inherent competitive advantage right now. So to capitalize on this trend, super-serve your customers in your chosen niche. Build relationships by building trust and you ll create a competitive advantage. It s hard for large companies to create a culture of trust. It s much easier for small business owners. If you think about it, we re back where we started. In days gone by, we did business with people we knew. It wasn t about the promises of a faceless brand; it was about the promises of a person. Deliver on your promises and you ll be a bigg success! ___ Get the tips and tools you need to be a BIGG success. Subscribe to the Bigg Success Weekly it s FREE! ___ Thanks so much for reading our post today. We trust you enjoyed it! Please join us next time when we ll look at this topic again by exploring two other ways small businesses can gain a competitive advantage. Until then, here s to your bigg success! Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00522-111009.mp3 Related posts 2 Important Things to Know About Your Customers If You Want to Increase Your Profit, Don’t Put Your Customers First

People who reach bigg success aren t constrained by the same forces we are. Baloney! It s a myth that we all aren t constrained in the same ways. But there s a bigg difference between the average Joe or Jane and people who ultimately reach bigg success. ___ ___ Remove the constraints! The average person gives in to those constraints. Bigg goal-getters don t see themselves as constrained so they don t allow themselves to be constrained. They don t waste time telling themselves all of the reasons why they can t do something. They focus, instead, on why they can do it and how they will get it done. There s a key lesson for us: By changing your focus from can t to can you open your mind to all sorts of possibilities. Your mind follows your lead Your mind will let you take it wherever you want. Think about why something can t be done and your mind will come up with all kinds of reasons to prove you right! Think about how it can be done and your mind will start figuring out any number of ways to overcome every challenge that holds others back. Sure, some ideas won t work out. You won t care. You know one of them will lead you to bigg success. But if you never get out of the gate if you just assume that you can t win the race you won t. The first part of the killer combo: Child-like imagination People who reach bigg success dream bigg. You must dream again. You must dream the kind of dreams you dreamed when you were young. Your dreams probably won t be exactly the same as they were then. But they will be as bigg as the dreams you saw through the eyes of a child. When the world was your oyster. When there was nothing you couldn t do. When you could imagine all of the bigg things that you would accomplish. When you knew that nothing could stop you. When you couldn t wait to grow up so we could get to all these wonderful ideas. The second part: Experiential wisdom But you re not a child anymore and that s good. You re better equipped now to achieve your bigg dreams than you were then. Combine that child-like imagination with the wisdom you have gained from your experiences. Together, they will help you achieve things that other people only fantasize about, if they allow themselves to think about them at all. That s the difference. That s why you should celebrate your age. You have gained an asset that you didn t have when you were young. You have learned from your experiences, haven t you? Celebrate them! Take joy in all of them the good, the bad and the ugly! You have the killer combination to achieve bigg success! Because of it, the possibility of achieving the impossible is more probable! Believe But too much of the time, we don t think about that. We stopped dreaming bigg dreams. We accepted being average and ordinary. Deep in your soul, you know that you re excellent and extraordinary. You have to believe again! Believe that you can achieve what you can conceive! Then find a way to do it. It only takes one person discovering one way to do anything that s never been done before. Then people marvel at the accomplishment. You re still the one! You are that one person! You were born to dream bigg dreams. You know it because you ve done it. You were born to be excellent and extraordinary. But first you must remove the limits that keep you from dreaming bigg. Dream. Then think of ways to make your dream your reality. Believe that you will win. Did you hear that? You will win. You will achieve your dream. You re still the one! Now, take action and you ll be a bigg success! ___ Get the tips and tools you need to be a BIGG success. Subscribe to the Bigg Success Weekly it s FREE! ___ Thank you so much for the gift of your time today. Please join us next time when we ll talk about why it pays to be small in business today. Until next time, here s to your bigg success. Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00521-111309.mp3 Related posts Overcome Self Doubt in 4 Steps The Hero Within the Hero (Image in today s post by asifthebes)

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Bigg Success is two years old today! What a two years it has been! Over the past two years, you ve given us two thumbs up in so many ways. You ve made us one of the regularly featured business career podcasts in iTunes. You ve helped us grow the number of people who visit our site every day. ___ ___ Bigg Success is not a two-seater. We love to hear from you. We re so happy that you ve been here to share your thoughts with us over the past two years. Because it takes two to tango. We couldn t do this if it weren t for you. We thank you so much for all your support. Bigg success is life on your own terms. It s two for the price of one here. We feel so fortunate to be able to work together. That s life on our own terms! Now on to the topic of today s post. There s a two-step in selecting your partner or partners. We got lucky on this one, even though we had two left feet! It naturally happened for us. But don t follow our lead. You probably want to be more intentional. There s a dichotomy at play your partnership must be two-faced. The first face: You and any partner should be like two peas in a pod. Partners must share the same vision and values or they will constantly be at odds with each other. For example, business partners must agree on whether you re in business to create current income or to build long-term wealth. Your strategies will be quite different with these two different visions of success. You also have to share core values. You will face some tough decisions on the path to bigg success. Partners with different core values may respond differently. The second face: Two heads are better than one. It s important to have a shared vision. It s important to have the same core values. However, if you share too many characteristics, your partnership will likely fail. You want a partner with complementary skills. If you both have the same talents and strengths, you would probably be better off with a different partner. There won t be much synergy in your relationship. You also want a partner with a different point-of-view. You want someone who takes a different approach. Otherwise, neither of you gets a critical review of your ideas. You needlessly waste time and money because your bad ideas don t get filtered out before you take action on them. We think these principles apply to any partnership. You can extend it as far as you want. It may apply to your partner in life, a partner in business, key employees or a joint venture partner on a specific project. The key to building partnerships that aren t two-dimensional is to understand this dichotomy when you select a partner. It s critical for creating synergy which multiplies your results more than two-fold. Get this right and you ll get two tickets to paradise partnership paradise, that is. And that s bigg success! Put in your two cents worth anytime. Review our show in iTunes. Leave a comment. E-mail us at bigginfo@biggsuccess.com. Call us at 888.455.BIGG (2444). However, whatever, wherever or whenever we love to hear from you! Thanks so much for reading our post today. Please join us next time when we look at a killer combination that s two things that lead to bigg success! Until then, here s to your bigg success! Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00520-111209.mp3 Related posts Should You Go Into Business with a Friend? Entrepreneuring Life on Your Own Terms Thanks to You, Bigg Success is One Year Old! (Image in today s post by heyjoewhereyougoingwiththatguninyourhand,CC 2.0)

U2 is on tour again. They re playing at sold-out stadiums and getting rave reviews. Before a crowd of 60,000 people in Norman, Oklahoma recently, lead singer Bono said something we found particularly interesting, It took us 26 years to travel one mile. ___ ___ He was referring to the band s 1983 performance at the Lloyd Noble Center. There were four to five times as many people in the crowd this time compared to a quarter century earlier. Becoming a star takes a lot of time and hard work Is there another alternative? We heard this story about U2 through a great post by Kris Dunn, the hr capitalist. He said that there is another way: instead of working your butt off, you can eliminate everything that doesn t lead to bigg success. (Okay, we ve paraphrased what he said a little bit!) The problem with the second choice is that it s often hard to know, in advance, what will ultimately lead you to the success of which you dream. You may unwittingly eliminate the thing that will put you over the edge. And we re not talking about The Edge from U2! Overnight success is a misperception Internationally best-selling author Chris Brogan (we love adding that tag to his name) has a great series of posts on being an overnight success. He says in the first one: Overnight success doesn t sleep in. Overnight success doesn t watch a lot of TV. Overnight success doesn t have a whole lot of hobbies right now. We live in a society where we think overnight success is a reality. The problem is that it s almost always a misperception. We need to look behind-the-scenes where bigg success is created. Let s shed some light on becoming a star: Find your delight. Bigg success is life on your own terms. So set your terms and get started on the path to bigg success. But remember that, since you re setting the terms, bigg success will set the price. Paying the price is much less of a burden if you re doing what you love. Keep your eyes on your lighthouse. Fair weather or foul, light or dark, you have to keep going. In your darkest moments, the only consolation you may have is that you can still see your lighthouse. Your vision of success can t be taken away from you. Keep focusing on it to keep going. Work by candlelight. There s one simple difference between people who reach bigg success and people who don t. People who reach bigg success are willing to do whatever it takes to get there. Yes, you have to be willing to work hard. Yes, you have to be willing to work in the face of opposition. Even if the power goes out, you ll light some candles so you can keep on keeping on! Highlight what s most important every day. It s easy to get distracted. It s easy to waste time. It s easy to go nowhere. It s hard to focus all your efforts and energy exclusively on what s most important today to move you closer to your dream life. It s hard to keep it in front of you. It s hard to get right into your next task or project when you complete one. Relight your torch every day. Bigg success is a long journey. You have to fuel your fire. You may get your daily mojovation here at Bigg Success. You may meditate. You may listen to great music while you work out. If it works for you, it works. Just do something anything to keep your torch burning. The bottom line is this: Lightweights don t ever get to step into the spotlight. You have to work hard and smart to become a star. You have to persevere if you want to be center stage. And isn t this ironic you have to risk failure to reach bigg success. ___ Get the tips and tools you need to be a BIGG success. Subscribe to the Bigg Success Weekly it s FREE! ___ Thanks so much for reading our post today. You light up our life! Can you believe we ve gone from U2 to Debby Boone in one short post? Next time, we ll discuss two things you should know about your customers. Please join us. Until then, here s to your bigg success. Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00518-110909.mp3 Related posts 5 Lessons from Baseball to Be a Hero in Business A New Media Maverick (Image in today s post by srbichara)

This episode is an hour long from the Michigan Witchesball 2009. They have the third of five episodes on the live recording at the Witches Ball 2009.

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It s another age-old nature / nurture question are entrepreneurs born or are they made? Can the essential skills be taught or do you have to learn from experience? ___ ___ There s a great book by Richard Goossen called Entrepreneurial Excellence: Profit From the Best Ideas of the Experts. He s lined up some of the greatest minds on entrepreneurship. He concludes that you can be taught some things but entrepreneuring is mostly learned by doing. The science of entrepreneuring For years now, colleges have been teaching their students the general principles of management. Colleges apply these principles primarily to managing large companies but the same basic tenets are relevant for entrepreneurs. Lessons can also be taken away from people who have succeeded or failed in an entrepreneurial endeavor. You may not get the specifics, but you can come to understand the general principles that helped them reach bigg success. Finally, you can learn to differentiate between a good idea and a good opportunity. There are a lot of good ideas; there are relatively few good opportunities. You can be taught how to determine if your idea is not a good opportunity. The art of entrepreneuring However, nobody can teach you how to identify specific market niches and determine whether or not you can pursue them successfully. Experience is the only teacher of this valuable entrepreneurial trait. You also have to learn how to transform your passion into a valuable tool than can be used to woo customers, employees, vendors, strategic partners, and financiers. This passion will also help you persevere when you face the inevitable obstacles along the way. You also have to develop an innate belief in yourself. Self-confidence grows with education and experience, but you have to be able to draw deep within yourself as well as upon the support of others. Entrepreneurship is part science and part art. Learn as much as you can about the science of entrepreneuring before you launch your business. The art is something you can only learn by dipping your toes in the water. That s the start of bigg success! ___ Get the tips and tools you need to be a BIGG success. Subscribe to the Bigg Success Weekly it s FREE! ___ Thanks so much for sharing your time with us today. Since we re in the midst of the World Series, next time we re going to look at some lessons we can learn from baseball about entrepreneuring. Please join us. Until then, here s to your bigg success! Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes. Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file: http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00515-110409.mp3 Related posts 3 Reasons Entrepreneurs Fail The First Question Entrepreneurs Must Ask Think Like an Entrepreneur (Image in today s post by ugaldew)

Deo and Ambrosia tell some stories about the WitchesBall and all about the after parties that happened at the hotel. Then they get to the second of five episodes on the live recording at the Witches Ball 2009.